Tenchi Muyo Translation Blog

... you know now that I've done all this translating and research... I just had to write an article to rant about something... and that something is how AIC has seemingly systematically abused the content creating powerhouse of masaki kajishima over the years, as you all should know, kajishima and hiroko hayashi, some small fry's from bubblegum crisis spun off a flunked onsen episode of bubblegum crisis into a show of it's own, one where basically maki got all the girls from bubblegum crisis and then some. kajishima was the character and world designer and hayashi was the director/storyboarder, naoko hasegawa was the screenplay writer. obviously they split after the end of the first ova and episode 7 on was a different team with kajishima still on since well it was his characters and world, and then AIC fucking ended it on a cliffhanger with a half episode while they clearly had plans for ova 3 as seen in the cut boards in the AIC art books that showed an alternate en...

To first explain how Dual! fits into The Tenchi-verse we must first go into the material explaining what was cut from DUAL and what happens before dual: In the tenchi OVA universe, long before the great precursor civilization (DUAL's earth) the milky-way galaxy's oldest civilization found a giant version of washu who had descended to the third dimension they used her and her gems to create 3 washu clones as military weapons, one of them, B3 had their gem mounted wrong giving her free will and so she ran off from the military. now washu was sealed to keep her from moving and was compressed (to the small size of only 10000 kilometers) and basically put into stasis, they had nabbed her while she was trying to regress to the size of a small child so she could gain control of her form. many millennia after this happened the thing holding her broke down and eventually she got control of her size and she ended up on the planet kanimitsu where she erased her memories and rev...